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Politico – by Jake Sherman

HERSHEY, Pa. — House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that secret government surveillance had helped stop an alleged plot to bomb and shoot up the United States Capitol.

Christopher Lee Cornell of Ohio was arrested Wednesday after federal authorities said the 20-year-old had bought guns and 600 rounds of ammunition as part of a plan to attack the Capitol, while expressing allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Boehner said the case could help Congress renew the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act later this year.   Continue reading “Boehner: Surveillance helped foil alleged plot on Capitol”

Seattle Times – by Daniel Beekman

When passengers step off the ferries from Bremerton and Bainbridge Island and head into downtown Seattle, homelessness is just about the first thing they see.

People sleep every night on the Marion Street pedestrian bridge, a narrow span that connects the Seattle ferry terminal at Colman Dock with First Avenue. Many camp right under the Alaskan Way Viaduct, which runs above the middle section of the bridge.   Continue reading “Seattle mayor wants to allow and regulate 3 new tent cities”

WNCN

DURHAM, N.C. – Duke University has canceled its plans to have a Muslim prayer announcement broadcast from Duke Chapel’s belltower on Friday afternoons.

The university announced its plans to facilitate a call to prayer on Thursday, but Duke officials acknowledged the decision resulted in unintended backlash.   Continue reading “Duke cancels plans for weekly Muslim call to prayer broadcast”

Global Research – by Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Officially three police officers were killed  and were honored by president Hollande in a State funeral on January 13. The ceremony was held at the Paris  prefecture de Police. The French president and prime minister Manuel Valls met with members of the families.  A fourth policeman assigned to the Charlie Hebdo investigation “committed suicide.” His death was barely acknowledged, presented as a “fait divers” with no relationship to the Charlie Hebdo police operation.   Continue reading “Charlie Hebdo: Mystery Surrounding Death of French Policemen”

Global Research – by Nick Beams

The World Bank has underscored the deepening malaise in the global economy, once again revising downward its estimate for growth in 2015. In its latest Global Economic Prospects report, issued earlier this week, the World Bank cut its forecast for global growth this year to 3 percent, having predicted an increase of 3.4 percent last June.

The growth rate of 2.6 percent for 2014 was also well below the forecast of 3.4 percent as a result of what the report called a “string of disappointing” results in the euro area, Japan, parts of emerging Europe, in particular Russia, and Latin America. The euro area and Japan accounted for half of the downward revisions for global growth in 2014 and one third for the 2015 forecasts.   Continue reading “World Bank Lowers its Growth Forecast”

WND – by Bob Unruh

A California school district has posted online a defense of its use of Planned Parenthood personnel for public school sex-education courses amid new allegations that one of the workers calls herself a “pleasure activist” and another leads demonstrations at a nearby “sex toy porn shop” called Good Vibrations.

The fracas developed a few weeks ago when it was reported that 13- and 14-year-old students at Acalanes High School were given a Planned Parenthood class in which “The Genderbread Person” was used to explain they could choose what sex they wanted to be.   Continue reading “‘Is it OK if I take off my pants?’”

ABC News – by Amy Taxin

The Mexican government on Thursday will start issuing birth certificates to its citizens at consulates in the United States, seeking to make it easier for them to apply for U.S. work permits, driver’s licenses and protection from deportation.

Until now, Mexico has required citizens to get birth certificates at government offices in Mexico. Many of those living in the U.S. ask friends and relatives back home to retrieve them, which can delay their applications for immigration or other programs.   Continue reading “Immigrants Can Now Get Mexican Birth Certificates in US”

Examiner – by Paul Bedard

Americans are in general agreement that the nation’s economy is improving, but not their own personal situation, a depressing reality that the administration can’t shake the country out of no matter what it does.

A big reason: They just don’t believe the president and his team’s boasting about the economy, with 52 percent in a new poll believing that there are more people unemployed than the president says.   Continue reading “Poll: Only 1 in 4 buy Team Obama’s claim unemployment improving”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

For what appears to be the first time on record, Powerball Lottery Sales declined year-over-year. As the following slides show, lottery sales declined 19% in FY14 vs FY13 and even more stunningly reflective of a nation whose disposable income (and hope) is in such short supply, sales in the first half of FY15 are down 40% from the first of FY14. As LaFleurs concludes, this will make it very challenging for most Lotteries to manage their budgets…   Continue reading “The US Economy Is So Bad… Even Lottery Sales Are Collapsing”

Share Everything – by Rasha B. Foda

While the world was busy condemning the January 7th attack on the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, a little known incident from the magazine’s past went largely unnoticed:

80-year-old Maurice Sinet, political cartoonist with Charlie Hebdo for 20 years, was fired in 2009 for his anti-Semitic cartoons mocking the relationship of former French President Sarkozy’s son with a wealthy Jewish woman. Continue reading “I’m not Charlie . . . I’m Maurice Sinet, fired by Charlie for anti-semitism”

Huffington Post – by Andres Jauregui

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that he would veto a proposed law criminalizing the use of chokeholds by police.

The law, which was introduced to the City Council last November, would makechokeholds a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison, a $2,500 fine, or both.

De Blasio expressed reservations about the bill last year, but on Tuesday, he said he’d veto it in its current form, according to the New York Post.   Continue reading “NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Says He’d Veto Bill Criminalizing Police Chokeholds”

CODOH – by Eric Hunt

The Majdanek Gas Chamber Myth debunks the “Gas Chambers Disguised as Shower Rooms” propaganda coup.

Majdanek was the first major concentration camp liberated by the victorious Allies. Upon capture by the Soviet Union, original propaganda claimed that 2 million were murdered in a “factory of death” which included seven homicidal gas chambers.

However, Majdanek was captured largely intact and a large amount of documentation and physical evidence helps to acquit the Germans of the “Gas Chambers disguised as shower rooms” blood libel.   Continue reading “The Majdanek Gas Chamber Myth”

Forward – by JJ Goldberg

A classified Israeli foreign ministry document, leaked to the daily Yediot Ahronot, warns that 2015 will see Israel’s standing on the world stage steadily deteriorating. It predicts “worsening drift in Europe toward Palestinian positions, more parliaments recognizing the State of Palestine, fear of sanctions and labeling merchandise [to separate settlement products from tariff-free Israel-proper products] and no certainty that the United States will continue after Israel’s March elections to protect Israel with its veto.”   Continue reading “Secret Israeli Report Sees Rift With Europe Growing”

Paul Craig Roberts

The Charlie Hebdo affair has many of the characteristics of a false flag operation. The attack on the cartoonists’ office was a disciplined professional attack of the kind associated with highly trained special forces; yet the suspects who were later corralled and killed seemed bumbling and unprofessional. It is like two different sets of people.

Usually Muslim terrorists are prepared to die in the attack; yet the two professionals who hit Charlie Hebdo were determined to escape and succeeded, an amazing feat. Their identity was allegedly established by the claim that they conveniently left for the authorities their ID in the getaway car. Such a mistake is inconsistent with the professionalism of the attack and reminds me of the undamaged passport found miraculously among the ruins of the two WTC towers that served to establish the identity of the alleged 9/11 hijackers.   Continue reading “The Charlie Hebdo Attack: Characteristics of a False Flag Operation?”

Silent Crow News – by Timothy Alexander Guzman

Former White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama and the current Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel once said “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Der Spiegel’s report on Syria’s alleged nuclear weapons program titled ‘Assad’s Secret: Evidence Points to Syrian Push for Nuclear Weapons’ is a true testimony to what Emanuel meant. The terror attacks in the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo took place on January 7th; two days later Der Spiegel’s report is published. The timing is perfect. Israeli media is running with it. The Tel-Aviv based www.ynetnews.com published an article titled ‘Syrian rebels: Iranian officers spotted near site of reported nuclear facility’ which confirms Der Spiegel’s accusations:   Continue reading “Israeli Media Steps up Propaganda War against Syria, Hezbollah and Iran”

The Prepper Journal – by Pat Henry

The news this week of the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 12 people left me with a few different emotions and thoughts. On one hand I felt a sense of loss for the families and victims who appear to have been murdered over what was essentially a joke. On the other, I was silently thankful this attack was far away from anyone I know or care about personally and that absent my shared grief for other innocent humans, I had not been affected in any real sense.    Continue reading “Will Paris Attacks Renew Call to Ban Guns?”

Washington’s Blog

The Stakes Are Too High Not to Negotiate Peace

Former Soviet leader and Nobel prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev warned today that the battle in Ukraine could result in a nuclear war:

“A war of this kind would unavoidably lead to a nuclear war,” the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner told Der Spiegel news magazine, according to excerpts released on Friday. Continue reading “Top Russian, American and Polish Leaders Warn that Continued Fighting In Ukraine Could Lead to Nuclear War”

Mother Jones – by Tim Murphy

After announcing he was forming a presidential exploratory committee last month, former Republican Florida Governor Jeb Bush quickly began pulling together a political operation of strategists, consultants and donors. On Thursday, the Washington Postreported that DC insider Richard Hohlt, a Republican lobbyist, has become an informal member of the Jeb Bush campaign team. But the newspaper neglected to note that Hohlt is more than your average Washington influence-peddler.   Continue reading “Jeb Bush’s New Campaign Adviser: “One of the Most Infamous Lobbyists in the World””